September 2012-August 2013

Fall issue of the Almanac is available

The latest issue of the Almanac, a newsletter for members and friends of AAS, is now available. Stories in this issue include "With a French Accent is Bordeaux Bound" and "Finding a Home at the Society: How a Collection Items Becomes Just That."

Watch AAS's new orientation film featuring David McCullough, Jill Lepore, Nathaniel Philbrick, and others. This short film describes the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). AAS is an independent research library and learned society founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

In the Spring of 2012, the American Antiquarian Society published The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History by Philip F. Gura. To supplement this publication, the Society digitized and made available in high-resolution the images and descriptions from the text. Not merely a list of illustrations, this site provides links to inventories and catalog records while also establishing additional contexts for viewing these important items.